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 Learn about and order NAPE's products online!
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Congratulations to Twin Cities Public
Television for being awarded by NSF a grant for a professional
development and research initiative, "SciGirls Strategies:
Gender Equitable
Teaching Practices in Career and
Technical Education Pathways for High School Girls." NAPE looks
forward to serving on its advisory board.
Staff from NAPE affiliate member and
professional development client, Center for New Directions, helped to
organize an Imagine
Your STEM Career conference.
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Center for STEM Education for Girls STEM
Think Tank and Conference
Nashville, TN, July 8-10, 2015
MWM
Summit and Gala, Washington, DC, September 21,
2015
National
Summit for Educational Equity, Alexandria, VA,
April 12-14, 2016
HESTEC
Community Day at The University of Texas-Pan American
features educational exhibits, food and activity booths, exciting
presentations and a concert showcasing performances for people of all
ages,
October 10, 2015
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I am pleased to announce that NAPE is
in the second printing of its new toolkit Explore Nontraditional Careers, a
transformational toolkit for educators and counselors across the CTE
and STEM pipeline. Learn more, watch the rollout webinar, and order
the toolkit on the NAPE toolkit
webpage. You can order NAPE's other products--Explore
STEM Careers toolkit, kudos
cards, and infographics--as
well as professional
development on the NAPE website.
On June 22-23, I attended the White House Forum on Excellence and
Innovation through Diversity in the STEM Workforce, sponsored by the
White House Office
of Science and Technology Policy and the White
House Council
on Women and Girls. Participants discussed the
state of diversity in science, technology, engineering and math jobs,
how to measure it, and challenges and best practices as organizations
work to increase diversity.
Tomorrow, I will moderate the Progress
on the Gender Front in STEM panel at the U.S. News & World Report
STEM
Solutions conference in San Diego, CA. If you are
at the conference, please stop by to see me!
For equity, access, and diversity,
Mimi
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How NASA Broke the Gender Barrier in
STEM
Melissa Jun Rowley, Fast Company
For the first time, half of the
astronaut class is women, and now NASA is offering new opportunities
for female tech entrepreneurs. Read
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How the Art of Mentoring Is Helping
Women Excel in STEM Fields
As girls grow up, they are told they
can be anything. But as girls grow up and enter college STEM classes
they often feel pushed out by boys or pulled out by girlfriends and
sometimes faculty comments. Read More >>
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What It's Like as a "Girl"
in the Lab
Sarah Clatterbuck Soper, The New York
Times
So as long as the scientific
enterprise continues to be populated by people who might find it
amusing to hold forth on the "trouble with girls," women
will receive inferior mentoring, compared with their male colleagues,
which will lead directly to inferior career outcomes. Read More >>
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Why Women in Stem May Be Better Off
Working in India and Latin America
It's not just the wealth or liberalism
of countries that affects women's success in Stem. Female role models
and the status of science jobs also play a key role. Read
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Women in Science: Poor Self-Perceived
Ability in Math Leads to Less Female Scientists, STEM Subjects
Kristin Magaldi, Medical Daily
The key to changing the gender gap in
STEM, researchers believe, is to shift widespread perceptions over to
the "growth mindset." Read
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Making Computer Science More Inviting:
A Look at What Works
Claire Cain Miller, The New York Times
A new prize aims to recognize colleges
that succeed in attracting women into information technology, a field
where they remain underrepresented. Read More >>
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Women 3X Less Likely to Seek
Internships in Tech
The diversity problem appears to be
occurring even before candidates officially enter the workforce, with
just 12.6 percent of women preferring a tech industry internship. Read
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Washington Nudges Tech on Diversity
The Obama administration highlighted
the diversity push as Megan Smith, the chief technical officer,
traveled d to Silicon Valley to participate in a workshop about
finding "top talent" from "under-represented
communities." Read
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Out in Tech: What It's Like to Be LGBT
in an Industry Struggling with Diversity
Rush, who was just beginning her new
career as a developer, said she didn't have the emotional bandwidth
to confront the homophobic remarks during her 6-month internship. Read
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More Latinos With STEM Degrees Needed,
Here Are Top Schools Doing It
Griselda Nevarez, NBC News
A new report found that Latinos earned
more STEM credentials across all academic levels over the last few
years. However, only 9 percent of STEM degrees and certificates went
to Latinos in 2013. The report lists the top 25 colleges and
universities that are graduating Latinos in STEM. Read
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Meet Margaret Hamilton, the Badass
'60s Programmer Who Saved the Moon Landing
The software for the guidance computer
was written by a team at the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, headed
up by Margaret Hamilton. Read
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